Re: Veretski Pass CD and book available

[r l reid <ro...>]

Yow
Yow
Yow
Can you stand one more meee tooooo posting?

Both the CDs and the book arrived today.  Wasn't sure about
buying the book because I'm not a great reader, but I
actually
sight sang the Vinnitser Sher.  I am currently totally
madly head
over heels in love with shers, having spent a lot of time
lately
learning the 20 Phila Shers with Jeff and the Tuesday
night gang (open
house in NYC is Apr 20, I believe).  These were new shers
to me.

We not only have new old tunes, and new new tunes, we have
lead sheets for
them.  I suspect a few of these will be good old tunes
before long.

As the sun set, I popped in the CD as I startd cooking for
the next week.
The leftover bison brisket and turkey breast - geting dry
- went into a
fresh vegetable stew to moisten them and get another few
days out of them.

And the CD starts up and -
Beauty, beauty, beauty.  I can't possibly do a formal
review.  All I can
really say is THANKS to Versetski Pass and THANKS to
Cookie Segelstein for
the transcriptions.   A rich world of music just got
richer.  And not all
in equal temperament, thanks be to the Almighty and these
musicians.

By the way - and I'd expect nothing less from any project
Josh Horowitz
was involved with - the pamplet they stuff into that CD
case is a worthy
work in its own right (cf Chasuna On A Kalla). 
Segelsteins stories of her
dad are a good read all by themself; even tho they are
meant to show us
"Muncach Comes To America".  I do some sewing, but I'm not
that good at
it, I do need some adjustments done and wish I could walk
down the street
to Mr Segelstein and have him do them.  We have a couple
nice tailors in
my town that do serviceable work...whose children, I
think, may have thier
own
Korean and Chinese immigrant stories in 40 years.  And the
recipes are
worth the price by themselves.  Actually, the Chicken Soup
recipe is close
to my own.  But I never had a clue on Chicken Paprikash
(the family I'm
adopted into is more Russian-area) and look forward to
trying it Cookie's
way.

As for Josh's story - it strikes me like a lot of his
stories and like
the movie Secondhand Lions.  Probably some truth in there
- but what
happens in the telling?  Thankfully, no cowpies in this one.

Personal to George Robinson - "Old World Klezmer is dead?"
 Ixnay, I say.
Mercifully, the jive self mocking "jewish jazz" from
America may be on its
way out (not that you can tell it from a packed Klezmatics
show) but the
"Old World Klezmer" is still just waking up - thanks to
people like
Cookie, Josh and Stuart.

'shekoach!

and a good moed to all...

roger reid, in awe



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